Quotes About Translator

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

An ideal translation should, I believe, reproduce the effect of the original, but I have found that the best any translator can even hope for is to reproduce the effect that the originals have had on him. (Preface, vi)

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.

And this fact again illustrates a major problem in Latour's formulation. If his article was meant to be a formal, or semiotic, reading of Einstein's text, it is not relevant to arbitrarily substitute words whose meanings are not justified by the text. Furthermore, the very premise of his "semiotic" reading of a text in translation begs the question of whether he is imputing meaning to the author or the translator.